Biography Farrell Brickhouse

Farrell Brickhouse- Narrative Statement 2011

As a second year student at Queens College in New York City, I was awarded a summer scholarship to Boston University's Tangelwood program. A year later in the summer of 1971 I was awarded a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in Maine. It was the first supportive pluralistic creative community of artists I had shared in and was a formative experience. A friend I made that summer and I formed an apartment painting contracting crew and we supported ourselves in NYC that way for the next few years. What was it to move a red or blue on the canvas an inch or two when you were moving walls and painting ceilings high gloss pink.

I then spent three years fishing in Montauk to take a break
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